Lately when my grandson is here he makes a beeline for the barn. Once in the barn, he heads for the parts department. Of course, he has to touch everything. I hear about the grease on his hands and under his nails from his mother. But what the hay, a boy is a boy!
If he watches you, and if he learns where those parts go, and if he gets to ride in your T and eventually learn to drive it, he will get hooked like the rest of us.
Keep it up.
Norm
Looks like you're training him well!
When I was little, I was very much like that...
That rings a bell. According to my mom, I was a fastidious toddler who hated to get dirty. She said a couple of years later I came in the house one day filthy from playing outside. When she commented on how dirty I was I said, "You can't have any fun without getting a little dirty." Over sixty years later it's still true.
Looks like one of Steve's sheds.
Dan,
Be a good grand-pop and as he touches something tell him what it is. Do the same with your wrench drawer...let him play pick up sticks with your open ends...and as he touches each tell him the size....lol
Don't laugh, my first son was like that, loved the tools and parts from the time he could walk...my garage was simple and neat...his own grand-pops a full tractor shed complete with an old Deere, his grand-pops T's, his grand-pops military vehicles, his gran-pops fleet of Kaiser-Frazers, and Edsel's, etc.
Then one day back at home after doing all this 'association' stuff, he was maybe 3 and a 1/2, I was under my own T and I called out....How about getting Dad the 9/16 wrench? Not really expecting anything. Danged if he was able to do it and a further test later showed he knew what was what and we became the pit crew on Saturdays from that day forward! Fast forward 30 some years and he now has his own '26
Next thing you know they grow up!
I think it's great. Just make sure, which I'm sure you have, that nothing with sharp edges are within his "touch" vicinity.
This past summer I acquired my Dad's 1917 Overland and when I wasn't working on the tudor, I was working on it. Every day, my 7-yr-old daughter would excitedly ask, "Are you going to work in the garage?" If the answer was yes, that meant that she could ride her bicycle with the neighbor kids outside because I was there to supervise. If I needed her to hand me a wrench or help hold something, she is of the age that she can help. It's great - she is already able to identify parts of the car and tools just based on conversation.
That Chevy dump truck must be a "cab over".
Nope just Ned's army truck